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Brian Kernighan

Also Known As Brian W. Kernighan · Brian Wilson Kernighan
Software And Its Engineering

Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1942 1
Birth Date
1942-01-30 1
Nationality
Canadian 1
Brian Kernighan
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AWK

Brian Kernighan

PIC (markup language)

Brian Kernighan
Connections

In Field

Operating Systems, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Brian Kernighan

Invented

AWK, Programming Languages
Source Wikidata: AWK
PIC (markup language), Programming Languages
Source Pic (markup language) (Wikipedia)
Research Unix, Systems
Source Wikidata: Research Unix

Long-Form Articles

Brian Kernighan and the work of explaining Unix and C, Articles
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Member Of

Princeton University

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Bell Labs

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Nationality

Canada

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United States

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

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1. Wikipedia: Brian Kernighan
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    Brian Wilson Kernighan ... born 30 January 1942 ... is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
  • Infobox, Born
    30 January 1942
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    Brian Wilson Kernighan ... born 30 January 1942 ... is a Canadian computer scientist.
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead paragraph
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Wikidata: Brian Kernighan
Wikidata Q92608, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Pic (markup language) (Wikipedia)
Invented: PIC (markup language), Lead sentence
Quote, Invented: PIC (markup language), Lead sentence
Pic is a domain-specific programming language by Brian Kernighan for specifying line diagrams.
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Wikidata: Research Unix
Invented: Research Unix, Wikidata Q2666693 P178 (developer) claim -> Q92608 (Brian Kernighan); computing atlas pioneer entity 276587, checked 2026-09-28View the Source
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